Example sentences of "[noun sg] live [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not approach the present problem which arises when the successor lived with the tenant in different premises during the qualifying period . |
| 2 | Giardia lives in the gut and produces microscopic hard-walled cysts that pass out of the body with the faeces . |
| 3 | While the Mirror and Express flourished , the Herald and its offspring Sun ( pre-Murdoch ) struggled , and the Mail lived in the shadow of the Express . |
| 4 | The daughter of a Cambridge bookbinder lived in the house for a year to teach binding and gilding . |
| 5 | Parasite genes can have effects on host bodies , not just when the parasite lives inside the host where it can manipulate by direct chemical means , but when the parasite is quite separate from the host and manipulates it from a distance . |
| 6 | However , it is patterns which matter : 87% of the residents of Northern Tyneside who work , work in the area ; 77% of the area 's work force lives in the area . |
| 7 | Or — like a few men of Sparrow Force whom Corporal Palmer had found near the coast living off the Company 's abandoned-in-transit Christmas parcels — they wandered aimlessly until captured , or killed by native factions . |
| 8 | Even Wordsworth 's residence in the Lake District , a non-profit-making area compared to , say , Manchester , and his initial attempt to live off the profession of poetry , represent a challenge to the age . |
| 9 | In this a group of friends form a syndicate to create the Hopkin myth , inventing biographical details ( ‘ a near genius living in the country with a romantic proletarian background , possibly a dipsomaniac mother and so on ’ ) for a painter who does not exist but whose paintings they churn out in a fashionable style ( ‘ with dots , crescent shapes and bright colours ’ ) and exhibit in a sensational first exhibition . |
| 10 | And there was a Miss living in the croft beside and she dreamt during the night that er he he was stolen . |
| 11 | Coun Michna claimed the vast majority living near the common . |
| 12 | By Malcolm Gluck YOU CAN date your descent ( or , if you prefer , ascent ) into louche living from the moment champagne ceases to be merely sparkling wine of uniform effervescence and taste and becomes individual bottles of wine to be judged against others of like manufacture . |
| 13 | This man , chamberlain , sheriff , Lord Mayor of York , member of parliament for the city , er master of the king 's mint , an important man , a local man , come up in the world quite a lot cos his grandfather had just been an apothecary living on the corner of er Grape Lane going up and up and up . |
| 14 | John Robinson was telling us all in his 1963 book Honest to God that we should get rid of pictures of God as an old man with a beard living in the sky . |
| 15 | He forced his wife to put up with having his mistress living in the house with them . |
| 16 | By 1788 , at a time when the improved Longhorn was at its peak and the Shorthorn already rising to the challenge , an eminent livestock judge declared that the Hereford was the ‘ first breed ’ of cattle in Britain , though the judge lived in the heart of Longhorn and Shorthorn country . |
| 17 | Now the girl lived in the care of the nuns at Syon on the Thames , a mere shadow of her former self . |
| 18 | The Princess lives at the end of the same road . |
| 19 | A girl lives in the image of her mother , and the mothers sees herself in the child . |
| 20 | Only a boy lives at the hotel to act as watchman with his goats and chickens . |
| 21 | One important thing the dogs learn is not to chase cats , so a big cat lives at the centre with them . |
| 22 | It is possible that Barbara , a sixteen-year-old West Indian girl living in the Home with her two-week-old baby may get trapped in that circle . |
| 23 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 24 | He was the only other boy living near the village . |
| 25 | When I met Belle she was an old lady living in the end-of-terrace where her mother had died . |
| 26 | I was asked to be discreet as the lady in question , a possible grand-daughter living on the island , was of affluent mien and might not like to be reminded of her origins . |
| 27 | Was there a huge hound living on the moor ? |
| 28 | The percentage of older people living in institutional settings increases with age but is always very much lower than the percentage living in the community ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 29 | Under the Administration of justice Act 1982 , where a will contains a devise or bequest to a child or remoter descendant of the testator , and the intended beneficiary dies before the testator , leaving issue who are living at the time of the testator 's death , then , unless a contrary intention appears in the will , the devise or bequest passes to the issue living at the testator 's death . |
| 30 | I had found a chiton living on the back of a rock which had a zoanthid colony growing on it . |